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Vietnam prioritizes poor on road to universal healthcare: US think tank
By Phan Anh February 6, 2021 | 03:47 pm GMT+7
A nurse takes blood pressure readings from an old man in Ha Tinh Province as part of a charity drive to diagnose diseases and provide medicine for the poor March 12, 2016. Photo by VnExpress/Duc Hung.
Vietnam has made considerable progress in providing universal healthcare by focusing on the poor and vulnerable, according to U.S. think tank Brookings Institution.
In an article on its website Wednesday, a group of researchers from Duke University in the U.S., Duke Kunshan University in China and the Health Strategy and Policy Institute in Vietnam said Vietnam has made sizable gains towards providing equitable, universal healthcare by focusing on the most disadvantaged when growing its health insurance scheme.
MOGADISHU, 4 February:
New figures released today reveal up to 2.7 million people in Somalia face acute food shortages (IPC Phase 3 or worse), including approximately 839,000 children under five who are likely to be acutely malnourished. This includes 143,000 children who are likely to be severely malnourished – the most life-threatening form of extreme hunger and requiring urgent medical treatment to survive.
Save the Children is deeply concerned by the deteriorating humanitarian situation for children in Somalia, as the country reels from a second and potentially deadlier wave of desert locusts, an uptick in violence, climate shocks including drought and floods, and the ongoing impact of COVID-19. The situation has become so dire the Agriculture Ministry declared a state of emergency on Wednesday.
Source: Save The Children
Save the Children is deeply concerned by the deteriorating humanitarian situation for hundreds of thousands of children under five in Somalia, as the country reels from a second and potentially deadlier wave of desert locusts[1], an uptick in violence, and the ongoing impact of COVID-19. The situation has become so dire the Agriculture Ministry declared a state of emergency on Wednesday.
New figures released today reveal up to 2.7 million people in Somalia face acute food shortages (IPC Phase 3 or worse) through mid-2021, including approximately 839 000 children under five likely to be acutely malnourished. A further 143,000 children are likely to be severely malnourished, requiring urgent medical treatment to survive.
SOMALIA: More than 800,000 children are going hungry as state of emergency declared over locust invasion
New figures released today reveal up to 2.7 million people in Somalia face acute food shortages (IPC Phase 3 or worse), including approximately 839,000 children under five who are likely to be acutely malnourished.
Save the Children is deeply concerned by the deteriorating humanitarian situation for children in Somalia, as the country reels from a second and potentially deadlier wave of desert locusts, an uptick in violence, climate shocks including drought and floods, and the ongoing impact of COVID-19. The situation has become so dire the Agriculture Ministry declared a state of emergency on Wednesday.